The Notorious B.I.G was born Christopher Wallace on May 21, 1972. He grew up in Brooklyns Bedford-Stuvysent neighborhood. He was raised during the peak years of the 1980's crack epidemic and started dealing drugs at an early age. Christopher Wallace was raised by his mother Volletta Wallace who was of jamaican descent. His father abandoned them while Christopher was still a young child. This affected him in a great way by not having his father around, he began to take charge as the "man of the house" along with that he began to feel the need to provide for himself and his mother. He started dealing drugs because the money was easy and he saw how many of his friends were making easy money. He decided to try it out.
Christopher Wallace was motivated by the mean streets of Brooklyn and the dope game of the era quickly captured him. Many obstacles stood in his way though as a young child having to quicky grow up as a young man, taking his fathers footsteps. He was reeled into the easy money of the streets. He overcame these struggles by looking to an outlet...which easily became music. After being discovered by Sean "P.Diddy" Combs in the mid-90's his struggle soon became a dream that he always believed would come true.
Not long after Ready to Die was released, Biggie married R&B singer and Bad Boy labelmate Faith Evans. In November 1994, West Coast gangsta star Tupac Shakur was shot several times in the lobby of a New York recording studio and robbed of thousands of dollars in jewelry. Shakur survived and accused Combs and his onetime friend Biggie of planning the attack, a charge both of them fervently denied. The ill will gradually snowballed into a heated rivalry between West and East Coast camps, with upstart Bad Boy now challenging Suge Knight's Death Row empire for hip-hop supremacy.
In the years following Christopher Wallace's death, little official progress was made in the LAPD's murder investigation, and it began to look as if the responsible parties would never be brought to justice. The 2Pac retaliation theory still holds sway in many quarters, and it has also been speculated that members of the Crips gang murdered Wallace in a dispute over money owed for security services. In an article for Rolling Stone, and later a full book titled Labyrinth, journalist Randall Sullivan argued that Suge Knight hired onetime LAPD officer David Mack -- a convicted bank robber with ties to the Bloods.
The Notorious B.I.G was born Christopher Wallace on May 21, 1972. He grew up in Brooklyns Bedford-Stuvysent neighborhood. He was raised during the peak years of the 1980's crack epidemic and started dealing drugs at an early age. Christopher Wallace was raised by his mother Volletta Wallace who was of jamaican descent. His father abandoned them while Christopher was still a young child. This affected him in a great way by not having his father around, he began to take charge as the "man of the house" along with that he began to feel the need to provide for himself and his mother. He started dealing drugs because the money was easy and he saw how many of his friends were making easy money. He decided to try it out.
Christopher Wallace was motivated by the mean streets of Brooklyn and the dope game of the era quickly captured him. Many obstacles stood in his way though as a young child having to quicky grow up as a young man, taking his fathers footsteps. He was reeled into the easy money of the streets. He overcame these struggles by looking to an outlet...which easily became music. After being discovered by Sean "P.Diddy" Combs in the mid-90's his struggle soon became a dream that he always believed would come true.
Not long after Ready to Die was released, Biggie married R&B singer and Bad Boy labelmate Faith Evans. In November 1994, West Coast gangsta star Tupac Shakur was shot several times in the lobby of a New York recording studio and robbed of thousands of dollars in jewelry. Shakur survived and accused Combs and his onetime friend Biggie of planning the attack, a charge both of them fervently denied. The ill will gradually snowballed into a heated rivalry between West and East Coast camps, with upstart Bad Boy now challenging Suge Knight's Death Row empire for hip-hop supremacy.
In the years following Christopher Wallace's death, little official progress was made in the LAPD's murder investigation, and it began to look as if the responsible parties would never be brought to justice. The 2Pac retaliation theory still holds sway in many quarters, and it has also been speculated that members of the Crips gang murdered Wallace in a dispute over money owed for security services. In an article for Rolling Stone, and later a full book titled Labyrinth, journalist Randall Sullivan argued that Suge Knight hired onetime LAPD officer David Mack -- a convicted bank robber with ties to the Bloods.
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